This was too much for her and she woke up and didn't sleep again for several nights; and one night she dreamed that the priest came to call and droned on and on, saying, "Dear lady, I know your tender heart won't suffer you to turn the porrrrr man out.

Now, while the various priests droned on and on and on, he watched her fixedly, willing her to look at him.

Beside him, the green priest droned quietly into the tree, speaking through telink like a stenographer repeating everything he saw and heard.

Now, beside the flower-draped casket, the priest droned on.

"This father does well," the priest droned.

My mistress and the prince stood at the head of the sarcophagus, and the priests droned on with their incantations and their readings from the Book of the Dead.

Well, when the priest had been droning for three hours, and the good king polishing the evidences, and the sick were still pressing forward as plenty as ever, I got to feeling intolerably bored.

The sun burned starkly overhead, an unbearably hot day in an unbearably hot graveyard, while the priest droned on and on at a service no one else had bothered to attend.

The priest droned to a close, and the coffin was lowered into the ground.

The priest was droning on inexorably toward "till death do us part," and Anna began to get nervous.